I had been lying a long time at watch, when at last I heard them come crackling along.

I lifted my head cautiously, as they burst through the trees.

The first was a magnificent fellow; but then I saw coming one, the prettiest, the most graceful I ever beheld,--there was something so soft and beseeching in its look.

I chose him at once, took aim, and shot him dead.

You see the antlers are not very large; it was young, but the prettiest creature!" In the course of this morning's drive, we visited the gentlemen on their fishing party.